SYOS!Snape? (Was: Stopping Occlumency)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115060


Yb wrote:
> Meaning that we're starting to see that DD doesn't know everything? 
> I agree completely. And it is very clear in the books that DD trusts 
> Snape. I suppose JK is showing us that DD is too wise to judge a 
> book by its cover, so to speak. I am also leaning towards not an 
> evil!Snape, but a SYOS!Snape (Save Your Own Skin). He is a 
> Slytherin, and ol' Phineas told us that that's a trademark Slytherin 
> trait. I wouldn't be surprised that if push came to shove, Snape 
> would haul buns and leave the good guys in the lurch. So maybe DD's 
> trust isn't misplaced, but he's betting a lot of the ranch on a 
> Slytherin's sense of altruism/take-one-for-the-team.

Carol responds:
If that were the case, wouldn't Snape have left Hogwarts after Harry
returned from the graveyard with Cedric's body, fleeing like the
cowardly Karkaroff? ("Flee, then! Flee. I will remain at Hogwarts.")
Karkaroff fled (so did Ludo Bagman, for different reasons), but Snape
kept his word and remained at Dumbledore's side, going into unknown
danger at Dumbledore's request at the end of GoF--after courageously
revealing to Fudge that he was a former DE. Surely if Snape intended
to desert Dumbledore to save his own skin, he would have done so by
now. And his life is really in jeopardy now, or will be if Voldemort
finds out that he sent the Order to the MoM.

Carol